Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-23

ter.
Mrs. VOORHEES, was born in Greencastle
Ind, IN 1852, and was daughter of MI
Reese Hardisty of that place She was
member of st Johns F .iscopal churcI
Of this city, and Yves highly esteemed b
| those who knew her.
A PLEURO-PNEU0IONIA BILL.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. % Dewitt "
Smith. president OF the National Cattl,
| Growers Association, Towers of Ksnaa:
City and Sanders of St. Louis had an in
| terview with President Cleveland TO-DAY
IN relation to the pleuro- pneumonia bill
now pending in congress. They repre-
/ sented TO the president that the consoli
dated cattle interests of the coun
try, including the proprietors Of
/ the Chicago stock yards, had united
| in preparing a bill looking to the supres
/ sion of pleuro-pneumonia among the cat.
tie, introduced in the senate by Senator
Miller, and in the house oy Delegate
Carly of Wyoming. The provisions OF
the bill were briefly explained to the
president who exhibited much interest in
the subject and promised to give it con-
sideration.
COMMUNICATION FROM SECRETARY MAN.
MING.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-The secretary
OF the treasury to-day sent communion
ton to the speaker of the house in an
sWer to the house resolution Of January
20, Mr.. Outhwaite's resolution, asking
what sums of money were owing from the
board OF subsidized Pacific Railroad Com
pany's to the United States, on the first
day of January, 1887, the sums which
are due, the principal and interest
under the existing law severally and COL
lectlvely from said companies, and what
will be the result TO the treasury and eff
feet upon these debts if the house bill No.
S3l1, the funding bill, should become a
law and its provisions be complied with?
The secretary says that the amount due
from the several Pacific roads for in
terest paid by the United States to
January l, 1887, on the subsidy bonds is
sued to said companies was S70,S54, 825, of
which there had been repaid by the COM
panies st that date the sum of S2l,552,-
IA, leaving due on account of interest
the sum Of $49,302, 16S. There will be
due on the same account at the maturity
of the subsidy bonds September II, 1887,
the further sum of S43, 400, 92l, making
total OF 1872, 100, l03 due and to become
due on account of interest. There is also
to become due on account of the principal
OF these bonds ct maturity the sum of
S64.623, 5l2, making an aggregate In
debtedness due and to become due of
SI57,322 G15.
In response to the inquiry, "What will
be the result to the treasury and the
effect upon these debts if the house bill,
Sis, should become law and it's prOvis-
ions be complied WITH" the secretary
states that the present worth of Indebted
ness of the several companies, as of Octo-
Der |, 1886, ascertained as pre-
scribed in the bill, is SOS, 4G3, 33l.
The constant semi-annual payment
refused to cancel the present worth of
Indebtedness above mentioned, and the
principal and interest in seventy wears.
computed at the rate of per cent. per
annum, reinvested semi-annualiy,
is S1,S58,O57. The constant
semi-annu&l payment arrived at
by the method prescribed in the bill to-
wit; 81 1914, 304 is less than tne correctly
computed semi-snuual payment above
mentioned by S3153, or about 1-5 of
per cent, and this constant semi-arDual
payment is sufficient, if re:nvestrd
semi-annually, to pay al the rate Of 2-992
per cent. per annum on said present
worth, or at that rate TO extinguish the
and interest Of the debt in
seventy years. In view of Ger
tain provisions of the act OF
May 4, 1873, commonly known
as the Thurman law, establishing a
sinking fund for the Union and Central
Pacific Railroad Companies, it may be
proper to consider whether the sinking
fund now held in trus by the United !
States should be treated as an offset IN |
determining the net Indebtedness due the |
government from these companies. 1t |
should be mentioned, however, that a |
condition of the bill is THAI its provisions |
shall be accepted by the companies inter |
ested.
COMBINATIONS.
WASHINGTON, Jan. % The senate to- |
lay made the following combinations
ostmasters-James Frey, Sigourney,
iowa; Frank Campbell, O'Neil, Neb.; |
Anthony Brandt, Bellevue, Iowa; j F
Blackburn, Hutchinson, Miss; f. Bow
nan, Brunswick, Mo; 5. Shelton, Wind
or, Mo.
W. Walling OF Indianapolis to be consul
t Leith.
HOW AIKEN CAN DRAW HIS SALARY.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-Represeutative
hammond to-day submitted to the house
rom lhe Judiciary committee a report on
1r. Dibble's resolution authorizing tie
cceptance by the house of the
attn Of office made by
Aiken st his
ONE in South Carolina After recitIng
nc fact that Mr.. Aiken was daily elected
nd confirmed as member of the house,
ut by severe illness has been uuabe to
ppear and take the oath, and must so
emain unable during the remainder of ,
lis session Of congress. The report
the lega! aspect OF the case and
OnCludeS that the house cen, and under
le circumS anCeS the house should &C |
7pt the oath Of office sent here by Mr.
iken.
ASIATIC CHOLERA.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-Tne secretary
STATE has received dispatches from
eUnos Ayres, stating ina. The deaths i
ON Asiatic CHOLERA III that city il No {
lmber last were 80, and that business Is &
r!uQlly suspended there. The death {
tie in Rosario has for some :
me reached fifty pc: day. The govern +
ent authorities are VOL king eIergetical- :
10 eNtirpate the plague by modern
ethod>. 6
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